Michele Pasin / Quotes

La scarsa cultura del mondo del rock

Poi bisogna dire tutta la verità: non è che il mondo della musica rock sia popolato da persone di straordinaria intelligenza, e ancora meno di straordinaria cultura. La caratteristica più comune è una mancanza di precisione del pensiero dovuta allo stile di vita, al confronto continuo con un pubblico fondamentalmente infantile, all’uso di atteggiamenti e linguaggi immaturi come veri e propri strumenti del mestiere. Wally Thompson non si distingue particolarmente per stupidità o ignoranza tra i loro colleghi; in effetti ricade più o meno nella media. Al contrario, è chi ha aspirazioni di miglioramento a essere visto con sospetto, se non con aperta ostilità; a volte basta essere beccati a leggere un romanzo che non sia pura spazzatura per essere giudicati dei posatori saccenti.

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#music #culture #intelligence

Acid outflanking my defenses against religion

I think it must have been ten days or a fortnight after Anna’s cremation—it was an afternoon, I remember—when abruptly I understood what had been happening…

The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) #psychedelics #religion #death #music #prayer

Algorithmic composition

Since I have always preferred making plans to executing them, I have gravitated towards situations and systems that, once set into operation, could create…

Algorithmic Composition: Computational Thinking In Music #music #audience #eNO #programmers

Art in contemporary society

The market for artists and sculptors has thrived as never before in history, but the paintings look as if they had been made with excrement or scraps from…

The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are #music #artists #painting #sculpture

Being Nobody: losing the self in ecstasy

We also sometimes live life under the third scenario, as Nobodies. ‘Human beings have stalked this planet for 100,000 years, [and] we have from time to time…

The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) #self #consciousness #drugs #music

Blindfold, earphones and the psychedelic language

I tripped in the bedroom again, and again had a wonderful afternoon, which I spent in almost exactly the same way—the most intense part of the trip with the…

The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) #psychedelics #music #emotions #unconscious

Cameron's list of British virtues

Resilient. Realistic. Intelligent. Curious. Enterprising. Inventive. Unswerving. It's the spirit that has made our universities among the best in the world…

David Cameron's New Year Message #music #television #spirit